Symptoms

Assume that you create a primary key on a column which includes large decimal values or numeric values in Microsoft SQL Server 2012, 2014 or 2016. Then, you create a full-text index by using this column as the unique key index. In this situation, if there are some rows that are failed to be indexed, the full-text key value will be record as a negative number or unicode characters. Therefore, you can't identify the rows which are failed to be indexed.

Resolution

This issue is fixed in the following cumulative updates for SQL Server:

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Workaround

To work around this issue, add a unique bigint or int column to the table and specify full-text by using that column instead. Int and bigint correctly report their values to the full-text error log when a failed row or document is reported. The unique column used by full-text doesn't have to be the primary key of the table.

Status

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

References

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